Bottle-stopper.



PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

G. KIRKEGAARD.

BOTTLE STOPPER- APPLIUATION FILED 001'. 6,1906.

UINTTED %TATE% PATENT T TTC GEORG KIRKEGAARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BG'ITLE-STOPPER.

No. 874,685. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 2a, 1907. Application filed October 5, 1905. Serial No. 337,507.

To all whom it may concern: l 22. Between the ribs the metal of the flange Be it known that I, Gnonc KIRKEGAARD, 12 is bulged outward above the projecting a citizen of the United States, and a resident lug 22 as indicated at 24 so that the whole of the city of New York, in the county of New structure of the finger is far more rigid and 5 York and State of New York, United States strong than the remaining portions of the 60 of America, have invented certain new and flange and disk. The flat portion desiguseful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of hated by 25 is rovided for the purpose of which the followin is a specification. accomplishing t e operation of applying the My invention re ates to an improvement cap to a bottle by means of a die or other tool on a bottle stopper which I have invented which may be arranged with cam-surfaces 65 provement which I have made in connection ,In app and for which Letters Patent of the United which come in contact with these surfaces States, N 0. 829,341, were issued to me on the for this purpose and thus the flattening out 21st day of August, 1906. and destroying the function of the stiffening he present invention relates to an im ribs 23 b this operatipn is avoided.

i ying this stopper to a bottle or jar with this stopper for the purpose of preventa die or other tool is used. for ressing the ing the reuseof the stopper after it has been disk down upon the mouth of t e bottle so once removed from the settle. as to compress the packing material 13 and I will describe my invention in the followthen pressing the lower portion of the fingers 20 ing specification and point out the novel 20; into en agement with theannular shoulfeatures thereof in claims. der 31 of t e bottle. The cap thus secured Referring to the drawings, Fi' ure l is a to the bottle is held firmly in place by the perspective View of my improved bottle stopstrength of the fingers and it is ca able of per. Fig. 2 is a siie elevation of the same. withstanding considerable pressure i iom the 25 F 1g. 3 1s a section of the unper part of a botinside of, the bottle.

tle with one of my stoppers applied thereto. The structure thus far described is more Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a cap, the section fully set forth in the aforesaid Letters Patbemg taken through the line XX of Fig. 3 ent. it is capable of being replaced upon a and the view being taken in the direction of bottle from which it has been removed. I

' 30 the arrows. Fig. 5 is a blank from which" find, however, that it is sometimes desirable the cap is formed. to prevent the rescaling of a bottle byits I Like characters of reference designate eororiginal stopper and the purpose of the presrespondng parts in all of the figures. ent invention is to so construct the can that 10 dezngnates a cap which is constructed the operation of removing it from the ottle 35 of sheet metal such, for example, as tin. The will so destroy it that it cannot be eiiectively metal is first stamped out into a blank of a used again. To this end i provide on either form substantially like that illustrated in side of the finger 20, on which is the handle- Fig. 5. The bottle stopper comprises a disk or tail-piece 2i, grooves 26, 26 indented or ortion 11 which has an annular dependin scratched into the inner surface of the do 40 ange 12. These together form aninvertec pending flange 12. in the operation of cup Within which is placed a packing disk 13 stamping these caps it is desirable to form of cork or other suitable material. At three these grooves aiter the flange has been bent points around the periphery of the disk and into its shape. The grooves are slightly inat substantially equal distances apart are dented into the surface of the metal and are 45 forinediingers 20, oneofthesebeingextendcd, not deep enough to destr'y the strength of as shown at 21, to form a handle or tailpiece. the fingers.

The fingers are embossed or pressed in a After the cap has been attached to a'bottle manner and for the purpose fully set forth in as above described and when it is desired to Letters Patent N 0. 829,341 so that each of i remove it from the bottle this may be readily 5O them has a hollow lug 22, which is arranged I done by grasping the lower end of the handle to en a c with the inclined shoulder 31 l or tail-piece 21, which is provided for this around the neck of the bottle 30'to which the purpose, and forcing the latter outward and stop or is to'be applied, and stifl'ening ribs I upward. The peculiar construction or the 23 which extend from points over the edge of l finger which carries the tailpiece 21 is such 55 disk 11 downward and below the holding lugs I that its rigidity and strength are much greater than that or the flange 12 through which it passes. The grooves or indentations 26 further weaken the flange at either side of this finger so that the pressure necessary to remove the cap will cause the fibers of the fiange to-be broken at these points so that the fiange will be broken through at these two points or else will be so much weakened that this particular finger cannot be used again to hold the cap onto a bottle; consequently, it may be seen that the usefulness of the cap is destroyed by the operation of removing it from the bottle.

What Iclaim is.

i. A bottle stopper comprising a metallic. cap containing a packing material and having a number of depending fingers around its periphery, a handle or tail-piece extending i'rom one of the fingers. each fingerhaving an inwardly extending lug for engaging the neck of a bottle and stiffening ribs surrounding said lugs and extending upward. to the top of the cap the inner surface of the flange being:

prov1ded with fracture grooves parallel to the fingers,

one of said grooves being on] I either side of the finger from which the handle extends.

2. A bottle stopper comprising a sheet metal cap containln packing material and having a depending ange, fingers extending from the lower edge of said flange and provided with a reinforcement extending from their lower ends upward through the width or depth of the fla e, ..onc of said fingers having a handle or tai piec e provided with a reinforcement extending through its handle and continuing through the length of the finger to which it is attached and the width of the flange, the inner surface of the. flange being provided with iracturegrooves, one of said grooves being on each si e of the fingerfrom which the handle extends. V

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORG KIRKEGAARD.

Witnesses:

A. E. CARROLL, CYRUS P. Jonas. 

